Commonwealth Numbered Acts

BOUNTY (PENICILLIN) ACT 1980 No. 47 of 1980 - SECT 19

19. (1) The Comptroller-General, a Collector or an authorized person may, by
notice signed by him, require a person whom he believes to be capable of
giving information relevant to the operation of this Act in relation to the
production (including the cost of production), storage, sale or use of
bountiable penicillin to attend before him at the time and place specified in
the notice and there to answer questions and to produce to him such accounts,
books, documents and other records in relation to the production (including
the cost of production), storage, sale or use of bountiable penicillin as are
referred to in the notice.

(2) The Comptroller-General, a Collector or an authorized person may make and
retain copies of, or extracts from, any accounts, books, documents or other
records produced in pursuance of this section.

(3) A person is not excused from answering a question or producing any
accounts, books, documents or other records when required so to do under this
section on the ground that the answer to the question, or the production of
the accounts, books, documents or other records, might tend to incriminate him
or make him liable to a penalty, but his answer to any such question is not
admissible in evidence against him in proceedings other than proceedings for
an offence against paragraph 21 (1) (c) or 21 (2) (c).

(4) Where a producer, or a person employed by a producer, has failed to attend
or to answer a question, or to produce any account, book, document or other
record, when required so to do under this section, bounty is not payable to
the producer, unless the Minister otherwise directs, until the producer or
that person has attended, answered the question or produced the account, book,
document, or other record, as the case may be.